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Section 22.-Whenever any subordinate officer or constable shall be guilty of any neglect or violation of duty in his office or shall neglect or refuse to obey or execute any warrant lawfully directed to be by him executed, or shall be guilty of any disobedience to any rule or regulation made under section 19, or of any other misconduct as an officer or constable, or who having duly engaged and bound himself to serve in the Police force shall desert therefrom, or who being permitted to resign chill not upon ceasing to belong to the force deliver up all arms, accoutrements and appointments whatsoever entrusted to him for the performance of his duty, he shall, upon conviction thereof before a Magistrate, in a summary manner, forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, and in default of payment thereof, b imprisoned with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding six months; and every offender shall forfeit all pay during his imprisonment.
Section 23.-The Captain Superintendent or the Deputy Superintendent shall, in cases of discipline or neglect of duty by any Constable upon proof thereof to his satisfaction, have power to order the offender to forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or award imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven days with forfeiture of pay; or, in his discretion, the Captain Superintendent or the Deputy Superintendent may bring the offender before a Magistrate who shall have power to award imprisonment for any term not exceeding fourteen days with or without hard labour together with forfeiture of all pay during such imprisonment. All sums forfeited under this section (other than forfeiture of pay) shall be paid into the Colonial Treasury as the Captain Superintendent shall direct, and shall be applied to such purposes in connection with the Police force as the Governor may from time to time direct either by a general instruction or by a special order in any particular case.
Section 24.-The Governor shall have power upon the representation of the Captain Superintendent to dismiss any subordinate officer or constable for misconduct or neglect of duty, or to approve of the reduction of any sergeant or constable to a lower grade or class in the force.
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On the 27th day of September, 1897, appeared before me Yeung Fat who, after the follow- ing statement had been interpreted to him, declared that the contents were true.
YEUNG FAT states-I am ex-detective P. C. 319 of the Hongkong Police Force.
At 4.30 p.m. on the 12th July last,. I was sent by Inspector Stanton to see Captain Super- intendent May. I went to his office with ex-detective Sergeant 190, Tang Chung. The Captain Superintendent beckoned us to follow him. We both followed him into gaol where we were stripped of all our clothing except our trousers and searched by a warder. We then put on our clothing and I was taken to a dark cell on the ground floor, and locked up. Up till then nothing was said as to why or for what purpose I was thus treated. I asked the He answered "I do not know; warder who locked me up, for what offence I was locked up.
it is the business of the Superintendent of the Gaol, Mr. May. He told me to lock you up." I said "If I had committed any offence, I should be placed on the charge sheet or there should be a warrant shown to me and explained." He replied "I do not know; it is Mr. May's orders." I said "I have been a policeman ten years and arrested numerous persons, but never saw anything like this before." The cell I was put in was about 7 fect by a little over 4 feet. It was dark, the only light was what came through a window about 17 inches by 7 inches The cell was swarming with bugs. I told the warder I had not had any dinner and he said there was none for me. I had been on duty at the Bank that day and had had nothing to eat after 8.30 a.m.
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At 11 p.m., still having had nothing to eat, I was taken out by the receiving officer who took me up into the Gaol Superintendent's Office where I saw Mr. May, Mr. Denuys, and an interpreter named Sung Sing. I asked for what offence I was locked up. Mr. May and Mr. Dennys both laughed and said “Don't you know? It is because of that gambling matter." I said "I do not know about the gambling." Mr. May said "The Governor has issued an order to banish you, because you have collected money from gambling houses for Inspector Stanton, Inspector Baker and Inspector Hennessy." I replied "I have not collected any such money." Mr. Dennys said "If you do not acknowledge it your name is down as an inter- mediary in the matter." Mr. Dennys then asked my name, age, how long I had been a lukang, my native place and what family I have. He also asked whose orders I was under and I told him Inspector Stanton's and Inspector Quincey's. He asked if I knew Wa Lane. I told him I did. He said "Did you know there was gambling there," I said "I have often seen Inspectors arresting gamblers there." He asked if I knew Cheung Hing Street. I told him I did. He asked if I knew there was gambling there, and I told him no. houses have been opened two or three years and you do not know it. Have you never heard He said "The there was gambling there?" I replied "Yes, I bave often heard of the houses being broken by Police, but do not know which houses. I am in charge of No, 6 section, and these houses are not ou my section. They are in No. 7 section." I was then sent back to the same cell,
At 2 p.m. on the 14th, two days after my arrest, I was again taken to the Gaol Superin- tendent's office where I saw Mr. May, Mr. Dennys, Mr. Brewin, and the solicitor Mr. Ewens' clerk Sin Tak-fan. Mr. Sin Tak-fau said to me "Now your friends have employed Mr. Ewens to attend to your case; if you know about that affair then speak out, and say so. If you do not know, do not say you do, no one can compel you to speak." I replied "I do not know." He said "The Governor has issued an order to banish you for five years.' perty here to look after and there will be no one to look after it." Mr. Dennys told me I I said "I have pro- could hand over that to a lawyer to attend to.
Mr. May and Sin Tak-fan then went downstairs together and in ten minutes returned. Then I was taken downstairs with Sin Tak-fan and into a room, the chief warder standing by. Sia Tak-fan said "Mr. May told me to tell you that if you will tell him all and give evidence, what Inspectors receive gambling money, he will not banish you, but will reinstate you in your position and you will be able to look after your business yourself. He does not care about your mentioning anything about the Chinese. He looks on them as sesamum seeds and green beans (that is, of no importance), he wishes you to tell him about the English and the Inspectors." I replied "I know nothing about it and cannot give evidence against any one." Sin Tak-fan then took me back up into the office and I said, "If I am to be banished, banish me soon, for I am sick now." Sin Tak-fan inter- preted that to Mr. May and Mr. Dennys. I was then taken back to the dark cell. Soou after I was removed to a big light cell on the first floor. The same evening, 14th July at 7 or 8 p.m.. I was taken to the office before Mr. May and Mr. Dennys. Sung Sing was there as interpreter. Mr. May said "Although there is an order to banish you the Governor can cancel it, and instead of banishing you, you can be sent before the Supreme Court, where your own evidence may be used against you and you may be sentenced to three years' imprisonment." He then said, "Do you know Sham Cha?" I replied, "Yes, he keeps a druggist shop." He said, "Is he not a gambling master?" I said, "I do not know, I only know him as the master of a shop." He said, "Do you know Cheung Hoi?" I said, "Yes." He said, "What is he?" I said, "He keeps a coffin shop." He said, "Has he not a share in a gambling house?" I replied, "I do not know." He then asked, "Do you know Lam Chi?" I replied, "There are many of that name." He said, "Tai Pau Chi, is he not a gambling master?" I replied, "I do not know, I have heard he is." He said, "There is a proof paper with names of Stanton, Hennessy, and Baker, with yours as go-between, unless you confess, it will not do." I replied "Perhaps somebody desires to injure me, or to cheat the masters, and put my name down." I was then sent back to the cell.